Monday Media Minutia

SUSAN BOYLE was a cute story…for about three days. After a week of Larry King, Dianne Sawyer, <strongTwitter chatter, enough already…the morning show ‘Knibbers threw out the name, Barry Bonds, as a possibility for the Giants hitting woes? That’s an easy one. NO, no and no. Fault Baer and Sabean, et al, for the current crappy product, but the ‘Bondsian card is so over, so yesterday. They’ll never go down that road again. Quote me…SJ Sharks postgame: Jamie Baker on Comcast last night: “The pressure’s on Anaheim”. Really? That’s an interesting spin. Paging Bill O’Reilly. What say you?

Having said that, both Comcast tonsils Randy Hahn and Drew Remenda are superb…I love KQED as much as you do, and while NY host, and occasional ’60 Minutes corres. Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, wouldn’t he be more effective at, say, 10 PM instead of 11: 30–midnight?…meanwhile, on radio, KQED-FMForum host Michael Krasny continues to hold his own during the morning at 9, some days even beating KGO’s top ‘yakker, Ronn Owens…Today is April 20th, “420″ lingo is out the door, as usual, from the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, you know, the usual suspects…ESPN‘s Stephen A. Smith is outta here, as the Bristol contingent continues to slash away ‘yesterdays and even a few ‘todays. Smith offered his own pro demise on, yes, twitter, naturally…speaking of ESPN, one of its best properties is “Sports Reporters“, but try watching it at 6: 30 AM on a Sunday. Nope. The earlier 7 AM time slot is doable. After all, Mike Lupica, NY Times and peets on a Sunday morn is almost as exciting as lunch with CNN’s Erica Hill…

The Giants third voice, Dave Flemming, is now doing the postgame KNBR call-in show during home games. That’s not the story though. Figure it out…NBA Playoffs: ESPN/ABC coverage is simply diluted with too many guys who sound alike; let TNT get in with exclu status. Chuck Barkley says more in one sentence than any guy on the sports leader…Is David Letterman that desperate for guests? ESPN radio’s ‘Mike and Mike were on the show last week and 3/4th of America who watched show were muttering, “who the hell are these guys”?…Oops, yes, of course, thanks CBS5 pr folks for mentioning that Dana King, the great, urbane anchorwoman has been at the station well over ten years, along side equally-tenured, talented, Ken Bastida. Sorry Dana–I owe you a turkey sandwich at Tommys Joynt…Finally, KNBR 1050′s Cyrus Saatsaz gets a ‘high-five from yours truly–his “Extreme Scene” show is a constant over at 55 Hawthorne and his blog broke the infamous ‘Icer Air scandal: http://www.theextremescene.com>